East Boundary Wall of St Donats Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 January 2005. Boundary wall.

East Boundary Wall of St Donats Castle

WRENN ID
idle-chancel-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 January 2005
Type
Boundary wall
Address
East Boundary Wall of St Donats Castle, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 938 682
Coordinates
51.40331, -3.52795
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The East Boundary Wall of St Donats Castle is a Grade II listed structure. It consists of two sections that are divided by the main east gate. The wall extends from near the north gate to the East Lodge, and from the east gate to the corner on the Llantwit Major road, where it turns south along the edge of the eastern deer park. Constructed from roughly coursed local lias limestone, the wall stands approximately 2.25 meters high, with some sections featuring a Victorian cock-and-hen coping. There is also some evidence of rebuilding and repair throughout the structure.

Local climate

East Boundary Wall of St Donats Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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